Tag: Financial Success Through Creative Thought

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefor it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

Also faith is born of gratitude.

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. 

The reaction of gratitude upon one's own mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith. 

It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously.

This will bring you into harmonious relations with the good in everything, and the good in everything will move toward you.

Republished from "Financial Success Through Creative Thought" by Wallace Wattles,  written in 1910 and now in public domain.

There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law, if you are to get the results you seek.

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal, and in opposite directions.

The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you.

"Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you."  That is a statement of psychological truth.

nd if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in Formless Substance will be strong and continuous; the movement of the things you want will always be toward you. 

Notice the grateful attitude that Jesus took; how He always seems to be saying "I think Thee, Father, that Thou hearest me." 

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.

Republished from "Financial Success Through Creative Thought" by Wallace Wattles,  written in 1910 and now in public domain.

If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true. 

The good things you already have have come to you along the line of obedience to certain laws. 

Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought.

Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the All, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited; and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.

Republished from "Financial Success Through Creative Thought" by Wallace Wattles,  written in 1910 and now in public domain.

Many people who order their live rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. 

Having received one gift from God, they cut the wires which connect them with Him by failing to make acknowledgement.

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive; and it is easy also to understand that the soul that is always grateful lives in closer touch with God than the one which never looks to Him in thankful acknowledgement.

The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us. the more good things we will receive, and the more rapdily they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

Republished from "Financial Success Through Creative Thought" by Wallace Wattles,  written in 1910 and now in public domain.

To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think; this is the first step toward getting rich.

To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances.

Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. 

To think according to appearances is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world. 

This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. 

Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it; and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH.

Republished from "Financial Success Through Creative Thought" by Wallace Wattles, written in 1910 and now in public domain.